Ning Yuxi's heart sank. She remembered that the palace maid who served the dishes seemed to have spilled the liquid on her, but she dodged it nimbly, so the liquid splashed onto the hem of Concubine Xie's skirt.
If it is true as Concubine Xie said, then this matter was originally intended to target her?
The more Ning Yuxi thought about it, the more frightened she became. Who would be so bold as to poison a concubine at a palace banquet?
Regardless of who this incident was intended to frame, the fact that the person dared to poison the concubine in public shows that the person behind the scenes was so bold and cruel.
The most important thing is that she can bribe so many people to do things for her.
Ning Yuxi suddenly thought of the incident of Princess Yin Cheng falling into the water. It was at Princess Yin Cheng’s birthday party that the princess was abducted silently and thrown into the water without being noticed by anyone.
Could the person behind the two incidents be the same person?
But the people involved in these two incidents have nothing to do with each other. One is the princess, and the other is Concubine Jing. Or maybe Concubine Jing was used to frame Concubine Xie. No, it was framed, her?!
But what is her relationship with the princess?
Wait, the person behind the scenes wanted to kill the princess, and she saved her?!
!!!
Ning Yuxi suddenly felt cold all over. Because she saved the princess, the person behind the scenes failed to achieve their goal. So, the person behind the scenes was angry with her?!
Ning Yuxi's mind was full of thoughts and she was in a state of confusion.
When she looked up again, she saw that the emperor was about to punish Concubine Xie. Ning Yuxi hurried forward:
"Your Majesty, I was sitting close to Concubine Xie at the time. It was indeed because a serving maid accidentally spilled soup on Concubine Xie's clothes, so..."
Before she could finish, the emperor interrupted her impatiently, obviously not wanting to listen to her.
"Noble Lady Xie, you are jealous and vicious, and you have poisoned the concubines. You are demoted to a concubine and confined to Yuxiu Palace. If Concubine Jing cannot save you in the end, you will remain in the cold palace forever!"
The emperor's eyes were cold and his tone was chilling.
At this moment, Concubine Xie seemed to have lost her soul. She collapsed powerlessly and allowed the palace servants to pull her out.
Ning Yuxi felt complicated when she heard the smug snorts from Zhou Changzai and Zheng Da Ying.
If it is really as she guessed, then Concubine Xie is really innocent, but the emperor is also really ruthless, or maybe he has feelings, but they are all on Concubine Jing's side.
Ning Yuxi couldn't help but sigh, gently stroking her belly which had been slightly bulging for three months, with a complicated look in her eyes.
The emperor felt that the concubines standing there were an eyesore, so he ordered everyone to go back.
On the way back to the palace, Ruyi supported Ning Yuxi and said with a fearful tone: "Master, it's a good thing you avoided the splashing soup..."
She was standing behind her master at the time, so she naturally saw that the little palace maid serving the dishes almost splashed the water on her master, but her master dodged it nimbly.
Otherwise, the master would have to change clothes with Concubine Xie, and then the master would be suspected.
Ning Yuxi smiled meaningfully and didn't respond. Ruyi still thought it was too simple.
And this smile just happened to fall into the eyes of Luoying who was silent on the other side.
…
There was no conversation for a while, and the master, servant and three others returned to Shuqing Palace together. Today was New Year's Eve, and it should have been lively and bustling, but because something happened to Concubine Jing, it was now deserted.
Ning Yuxi had no intention of staying up all night to celebrate the New Year. She went back, washed up, and lay down, telling everyone to leave.
Thinking about Concubine Jing's poison, Ning Yuxi recalled the familiar smell carefully.
Suddenly, Ning Yuxi thought of something. In modern times, she had traveled to a remote place in Yunnan, where she had seen the same situation as Concubine Jing.
The man was a local villager. He accidentally ate something in the mountains and fell into a coma. He would cough up black blood every once in a while. The smell of the black blood was exactly the same as what he smelled at Jingfei's place today.
If the smell hadn't been so pungent, Ning Yuxi wouldn't have remembered it so clearly.
It was at the door of an inconspicuous clinic in a small town. The unconscious villager was carried to the clinic by his family. She was very surprised when she saw this.
The condition was so serious that he didn't go to a big hospital but came to this inconspicuous small clinic. In addition, Ning Yuxi herself liked to study some medical skills, so she stayed to see the doctor.
The white-bearded old man in the clinic did not have the rule of not allowing people to see him. He prescribed a medicine and fed it to the patient, and then applied acupuncture to various acupuncture points on the body.
About half an hour later, the acupuncture points began to slowly ooze black blood, which continued to flow for about ten minutes before returning to its normal color.
Later, Ning Yuxi learned that the man had accidentally eaten a rare poisonous mushroom. This poisonous mushroom was very special and seemed to be a newly appeared species.
Even when cooked, it is still poisonous and its appearance is no different from that of ordinary non-toxic mushrooms.
The detoxification prescription combined with silver needles and bloodletting can detoxify the poison.
Ning Yuxi thought carefully about the prescription. The old man with white beard did not hide from others when he prepared the medicine. There were more than a dozen herbs in total, none of which were rare, but rather strange.
Ning Yuxi wondered whether to tell the emperor about the prescription.
If it was really as she guessed, then Concubine Xie was unlucky enough to take the blame for her, even though what happened to Concubine Xie was not caused by her.
But the reward is ten thousand taels of silver, ten thousand taels...
I tossed and turned without figuring anything out and fell asleep in a daze.
The next morning, Ruyi and Luoying helped her get up. Ning Yuxi was still thinking about the ten thousand taels of silver, bah, and saving Concubine Jing. Luoying suddenly said:
"Master, I heard that Concubine Jing's poison has been cured."
What?
Ning Yuxi was slightly surprised. Didn’t they say that the imperial physicians were helpless? How could it be cured so quickly?
Ning Yuxi looked at Luoying who was combing her hair and asked, "How did you solve it?"
Luoying replied, "I heard it was a young palace maid. She had seen this poison before in her hometown village. It is said that the poison comes from a poisonous mushroom."
Ning Yuxi understood. This poisonous mushroom only appeared in some remote mountain villages and was very rare. Naturally, the imperial doctors in the palace had rarely seen it.
Ning Yuxi asked curiously, "Do you know where this little palace maid is from?"
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